Japanese Tea Garden
Garden
Japanese Tea Garden (garden, run by the Recreation and Park Department): $250.4M budgeted for its department in FY2025, 2,161 employees on the payroll, 3 city documents at the Internet Archive, every figure linked to its source. The Japanese Tea Garden appears chiefly in Golden Gate Park planning documents. A 2002 EIR for the Concourse Authority projects lists the garden as a contributing feature of the proposed park historic district and notes it "has been determined eligible for listing on the California Register of Historical Resources," concluding the project would not materially alter it. Revisions to the New de Young Museum EIR (2000-2001) confirm the garden is "individually eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places" and analyze the museum's effect on it, including a proposed tower visible from the garden. It is operated by the Recreation and Park Department, whose FY2025 budget line is about $250M; no contract in the data names it. Source: SF Controller open data and the Internet Archive.
Wikimedia Commons · King of Hearts · CC BY-SA 4.0The Japanese Tea Garden appears chiefly in Golden Gate Park planning documents. A 2002 EIR for the Concourse Authority projects lists the garden as a contributing feature of the proposed park historic district and notes it "has been determined eligible for listing on the California Register of Historical Resources," concluding the project would not materially alter it. Revisions to the New de Young Museum EIR (2000-2001) confirm the garden is "individually eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places" and analyze the museum's effect on it, including a proposed tower visible from the garden. It is operated by the Recreation and Park Department, whose FY2025 budget line is about $250M; no contract in the data names it.
Archive coverage for this place is limited — only 3 matched documents so far, so this summary stays short rather than padded.
75 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr · City-owned · 2,132 sq ft · 5 buildings on site · parcel 1263011 · District 7 · City Facilities registry
No city spending is recorded against this place by name. San Francisco publishes contracts, bond items and vendor payments at project level, and none of them names this site — so there is no figure to show, rather than a figure of zero.
Run by the Recreation & Parks, whose whole-department budget is $250.4M across 2,161 staff (FY2025) — citywide, not this place’s own. The City does not publish a running cost per building.
The response volume for the de Young rebuild, revising the site plan to show how the new museum would sit against the Tea Garden and the Music Concourse.
New de Young Museum project : environmental impact report : draft summary of comments and responses · 2000 ↗Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scansThe Concourse environmental review, which lists the Tea Garden among 123 contributing features of the proposed historic district and finds it individually eligible for the California Register.
Golden Gate Park Concourse Authority projects : draft environmental impact report · 2002 ↗Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scansThe revised final report confirms the Tea Garden is individually eligible for the National Register — unlike the de Young and the Academy of Sciences, which qualify only as contributors.
New de Young Museum : revisions to final environmental impact report · 2001 ↗Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scans
